Cleanup On Aisle Linkage
Clearing out the chaff from the wheat of my link list this week, and it occurred to me that some blogs need more than a quiet pointer.
Around here, we believe that ACTUAL PLAY >> game theory, and today I’ve got one of the better AD&D session report blogs for you. A lot of things are churning in the depths of the tabletop world, memes and ideas percolating their way up into the mainstream. Within a few years, these thoughts and ideas will be commonplace and Johnny-come-latelies will be crawling out of the woodwork to sell you advice on “this great new playstyle that I just kinda thought up”.
If you want to get ahead of the curve, you should be reading Waterdeep Session Reports. It’s already a long-running campaign featuring 21 sessions of thick and rich AD&D goodness, and one that incorporates a lot of the old ideas that have been rediscovered now that the serious thinkers have moved on from the OSR and turned their gaze upwards toward the heights of rules as written AD&D. Even the OSRIC guys, bless their hearts, quailed before that challenge and produced a simplified and half-measures version of Gygax’s masterpiece.
No spoilers – the Waterdeep Sessions are experimental, and go in some really interesting directions. The best I can offer you right now is the promise of a campaign that is intricate and steadily grows from the ordinary into something very, very different. Solid recommend!
Edit to add: This madman has a second blog where he posts a “town cryer” style update on all the doings that are afoot in Waterdeep. THE WATERDEEP WAZOO. No spoilers, lots of extra bits, but a must-visit for his players, and a must-visit for anyone who wants to stay up to date on the campaign. Good stuff, Maynard.